Just on the evening news: A couple hundred Louisiana refugees have been bused into Alexander Memorial Coliseum this evening to make it their "new home."

:confused


:help

Hot Tulane girls, here I come!!!

:rofl

Actually, we already got an email about that. :dunno

Matt

Actually, we already got an email about that. :dunno
Really? What did it say?

I would first like to thank all the students, faculty, and staff who worked with the Tulane students to help them reunite with their families, or for those who had no place to go, to help them find housing near our campus. We are continuing to assist the community and the victims of this disastrous hurricane.

Later today the Alexander Memorial Coliseum will serve as a temporary evacuation center for several hundred refugees from the hurricane- affected areas. All shelters between New Orleans and Atlanta are at capacity. The Red Cross contacted me last night and asked for assistance. Georgia Tech's mission is education, research and service. It is now time to serve. Victims of the storm began arriving at the Coliseum around noon today. This effort is being coordinated and completely sponsored by the Red Cross. Please do not take donations to the Coliseum. Contact the Red Cross for volunteer and donation information. On campus, the Office of Community Service in Student Affairs is coordinating volunteer efforts. Please contact the Office of Community Service at 404-894-2200 to sign up to volunteer for a shift at the Colisuem. You can also check their Web site at http://www.service.gatech.edu for updates.

Also, we will continue to offer support to our students who have families in the Gulf Coast area. As they need to contact family, go home, or whatever is needed, we will support these students and our alumni in these areas.

Georgia Tech is also doing everything we can to accept students from universities that have been closed due to the hurricane and associated flood waters. The Board of Regents has set guidelines for accepting these students to University System of Georgia colleges and universities. Assistance and support will be offered at various levels with regard to financial aid, tuition, and other accommodations. Already, we have accepted seven students to Georgia Tech who were qualified and needed a place to continue their education.

This is a time for compassion and support. As always, we have the best students in the nation and these students have stepped up to the plate with a fundraising drive to raise $50,000 for victims of Katrina. When you see our students around campus with their buckets, I urge you to give generously. There is much need and much that needs to be done.

Again, thank you for all of your heroic efforts.

G. Wayne Clough
President
Georgia Institute of Technology

Matt

Interesting...

Well, it's good of them to help. I just hope the place isn't left in the same condition as the Superdome. :nono

Do you think there is anyway they would let us visit them? I dont really like randomly giving out supplies for aid, when i dont know who its going to. It would be pretty nice if we could take a couple of them out for lunch/dinner in the mean time. With all the crap they're going through, I'm sure GaTech food is the last thing they need right now.

Do you think there is anyway they would let us visit them? I dont really like randomly giving out supplies for aid, when i dont know who its going to. It would be pretty nice if we could take a couple of them out for lunch/dinner in the mean time. With all the crap they're going through, I'm sure GaTech food is the last thing they need right now.
That would be quite cool, actually.

I wonder about access control, though. Surely nobody's under detention per se, but I expect they must have some kind of ID or pass system set up. You can't really just open a venue like that to the general public, lest it be filled with bums in seconds. :eyecrazy

Hm...

BF.c Ga Take-A-Refugee-To-The-Varsity meet? :ponder

I just thought about it this evening. It would be fun I think. But yeah, I know they don't want us to send supplies to the arena, so I dont know how tight they are on letting us in. But yeah, I imagine there are some pretty hot girls there... ;)

Yeah... I know a few Tulane girls...

http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gtg965w/postendymion.jpg

Matt

But yeah, I told a friend to look into the idea of taking a few folks out. I'm going to try tomorrow night. I'll let you know if its possible. If so, I'm sure they'd be pretty delighted with the idea of getting out a little bit.

i'm gonna go help out a few Tulane girls by giving them much needed alcoholic refreshments.

i'm gonna go help out a few Tulane girls by giving them much needed alcoholic refreshments.
Yesssss... you have my number, right? :devillook

Matt

Is that photo from mardi gras? Why do they have their shirts on?

Why do the girls in that photo have their shirts on?
They were the sophisticated, classy ones. Except the one with the dicks around her neck. She earned those beads. :icon23

Matt

They were the sophisticated, classy ones. Except the one with the dicks around her neck. She earned those beads. :icon23

Matt

OMG! I didnt even notice that before in the photo! haha

email we got...


To: Georgia State University faculty, staff and students
From: President Carl Patton

The Georgia State University community shares the deep concern for all victims of Hurricane Katrina, and in particular for the college students, faculty members and their families.

In an effort to help students avoid a break in their education, Georgia State will accept students who can show proof of enrollment at an accredited university or college in the New Orleans area as transient students for the fall semester.

The Georgia Staste Univesity Student Government Association will help orient these new students to the campus, and through Volunteer GSU we will organize a response as soon as we can travel to the affected area.

Thank you.


like we dont have enough students.. :rolleyes i swear this semester at state has been hell with all the dumbass new people being all lost and annoying...not to mention being late to class all the time because it is so hard to make it pass the crowds of people walking on the streets. Normally this problem would be fixed after first week when freshmen found out tey can skip classes and never showed again but not this semester...second week and same shit :mad and now this :mad

We're getting some visitors ON our campus.

The email we got:

Official UGA Announcements
Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005

TO: UGA faculty, staff and students

RE: Utilization of the Ramsey Center by the American Red
Cross

The University of Georgia has been asked by Gov. Sonny
Perdue to participate in statewide efforts to house evacuees
from the hurricane devastation along the Gulf coast. As
outlined in existing disaster plans, the Ramsey Center for
Student Activities is a designated Red Cross shelter in such
emergencies. It can temporarily house an estimated 574
persons.

The university was informed late Friday that evacuees from
the Gulf coast disaster may begin arriving at the Ramsey
Center as early as Sunday, Sept. 4. It is clear that
portions of the Ramsey Center may become unavailable for
their normal uses once this crisis plan is implemented.
While details are not complete at this time, it is expected
the impacted areas will be those on the first, or lowest,
floor.

The university community already has shown a tremendous
desire to be of assistance in this national emergency. Your
cooperation and understanding of inconveniences caused by
the utilization of the Ramsey Center for this important
purpose will be appreciated.

Further information will be provided as it becomes available.

We're getting some visitors ON our campus.

The email we got:

Athens is a dump, not like it really matters.

i dont mind helping..but crowding our classrooms even more with out of state students who are getting free rides..not something i like.

There goes the neighborhood.

Athens is a dump, not like it really matters.
:nono

On a side note, my ex-gf is a Tulane graduate, and we had lots of fun in New Orleans. I'd welcome those girls with open arms at Tech.

:nono

On a side note, my ex-gf is a Tulane graduate, and we had lots of fun in New Orleans. I'd welcome those girls with open arms at Tech.

I'm sure half the population will be too busy playing on their computers to notice they've arrived.

I'm sure half the population will be too busy playing on their computers to notice they've arrived.

hahahahaha

I'm sure half the population will be too busy playing on their computers to notice they've arrived.
half? more like 80%

You guys really think the refugee demographic is made up of hot chicks and computer geeks? :confused

Hoo boy, are you in for a big surprise! :rofl



The smart and/or pretty people got out first. :devillook

You guys really think the refugee demographic is made up of hot chicks and computer geeks? :confused

Hoo boy, are you in for a big surprise! :rofl



The smart and/or pretty people got out first. :devillook


I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you've never been enrolled at Tech. Since then I think it'd be painfully obvious who would actually be playing computers games out of the two groups. ;)


My big sis went to Tulane, so those were some of my first "college experiences." Trust me, I know all too well how much more "lively" the average student is there. :(

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you've never been enrolled at Tech. Since then I think it'd be painfully obvious who would actually be playing computers games out of the two groups. ;)
Enrolled myself, no, but I wasted plenty of my immortal youth there with a buddy who was enrolled. So yes, I'm well familiar with the prevailing demographic.

It's just amusing to see how hope springs eternal from some quarters. Any arrival of new people, even water-logged refugees, brings speculation of "OMG, will there be girls??!!1" :rofl

i bet 95% of the "refugees" arent girls

i bet 95% of the "refugees" arent girls

That still tips the ratio's favor towards the female side.



Strange, Tech jokes are suddenly 58907023980 times more funny to me than when I was still going there. ;)

I got to tech and I never have trouble with the ladies :dunno

I got to tech and I never have trouble with the ladies :dunno
I have to agree with that. Even back in ye olde days when I was hanging out there (well before they expanded the curriculum and brought in more chicks), I always saw plenty of potential "targets" roaming around. :buttrock